Baber v. Baessell’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.2d 725 · 1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Spearin · 14 E.H. Smith 72 - MacKnight Flintic Stone Co. v. Mayor of New York · Filbert v. City of Philadelphia · Mercantile Trust Co. v. Hensey · Weld v. Goldenberg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled in this jurisdiction that the measure of damages for failure to complete a building according to contract is the difference between what the building is worth when completed and what it would have been worth had it been completed according to the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fortune v. Evans
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.